When do you put your tree up? Xx

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Just that really. When do you put your tree up? Also do you make it a family tradition and let children help or do it alone so it’s perfect lol
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A week before Christmas and it doesn’t come down til the 6th! And noooo, I permit no one to help!

Christmas Eve during 9 Lessons then down on 12th Night at our 12th Night party.

Always a free for all. Always a real tree.

First week Dec

Mid December, it's a family occasion, with Christmas music.

This year we'll go to my parents house and help the do theirs. It's bittersweet as one parent lost their mum and the other lost their siblings this year. Having a gathering will help us all.

I like to wait until a day or two before Christmas Eve to put up the tree and it stays up through the 12 days of Christmas until Epiphany. We usually buy a tree mid-December and keep it in a bucket of water in the garden. Some years we have cut it a bit fine and ended up with a big discount on one of the last trees at the garden centre! Once it's up, I decorate it and the others help a little. DH was always good about sorting the lights. He liked to hang one ornament for luck but felt the tree was otherwise too prickly.

Over the course of Advent, I bring out other decorations (calendar, Christmas carousel, garlands for cards, DDs' toy Nativity set) and put up outdoor lights all of which stay up until Epiphany.

I go all out for christmas, not garish or tacky but we have a few trees and a wreath, some garlands and little bits and bobs. It's not for everyone but I spent many years not allowed to celebrate Christmas and now I want the fun for my children and to heal myself a bit! So I usually start it the second weekend in November, just to set things up, get trees out and organise everything. Then we decorate the trees on the 1st December. Our trees are all pre-lit and I just love the cosy feel of a lit christmas tree with no decs for a couple of weeks. We have a kind of mezzanine over our living room that I hang lit garland along which is nice to walk out to in the mornings.

Usually first weekend in December but that's only since children were old enough to enjoy it. Used to be around 13 December as that's when it went up when I was younger.

This year it'll be 29/30 November due to when weekends fall. Always up into the New Year, usually take it down 12 days after Christmas.

I hate it when trees/decorations are down before New Year.

The Sunday that falls a week-10 days before Christmas.
we all go and choose it together, dh saws the trunk to the right height and we get it in the stand, I put the lights on then I sit on the sofa and watch the dc decorate it. It’s been this way forever, as long as the eldest dc could put a bauble on a tree.
I’ve never rearranged anything, I really don’t care - it’s our tree and it can look however they want it to look.

The closest weekend or day off to the 1st. I like it ready for then. The room I use for business usually gets done sooner. Usually down on 3rd.

It isn't even November yet. Stick this on the Chrismas board....

A week before Christmas. I don’t want to look at a dead tree over the holidays.

After years of struggling to get DH to put our tree up in beginning of December and often only getting it up the week before Xmas last year dh retired early and we finally got the tree up on December 1st. I've already reminded him how nice it was to get it up early. We always have a proper Xmas tree of 7-8 foot at it takes time, getting it back to house, potting it up, wIting for it to open out after getting the netting off, watering before lights going on and setting it in place for decorating which I have to use a ladder to reach the top branches. Adult DC were all given a set of beautiful hand blown glass baubles their Aunt bought them 1 each every Xmas from birth. We joke our tree looks paupers now after years of it looking all kings and no shepherds as my sister us d to say. Now our tree is more shepherds with just a few kings.

Christmas Eve, down a few days later. I'm not a fan of Christmas being dragged out for weeks.

My solstice decorations go up before the Christmas ones, for me it is a more meaningful date to celebrate.

When the DC were young we used to put the Christmas tree up in the afternoon after the schools broke up.

A week to ten days before Christmas, depending on when the weekend falls.

Sorry Mrs grumpy x

Always a real one, so not before about mid December. Dds used to help decorate when they were still at home, used to go with dh to choose, and invariably came home with some massive thing that needed a foot sawn off the bottom before it’d fit under the ceiling, plus furniture shifted around to make space.
Nowadays I go with dh for a maximum 6 footer. 🎄🙂

Aiming for the 7th this year, we used to do it as a family, the kids do the lower, unbreakable decorations, I do the upper breakable ones, but we're in the process of divorcing so not sure this year.

Well, It's almost a certainty that we'll all be together on Christmas day, we're still living together, the house is on the market, but since its less than 8 weeks to go its very unlikely to be sold and moved by then. I usually love christmas, but this year I'm just sad.

First weekend in December - always up for St Nicolas on 6th Dec, even though dd no longer really lives at home. It is always me that decorates the tree. I think she used to help but was never that bothered about it.

After Sinterklaas and never before and tree and decorations down between Christmas and NY.

First weekend in December. Always a slightly too big real tree. We decorate it together, reminise about some ornaments, made in primary school or donated by my parents from their tree, listen to Christmas music and drink Baileys - proper start of Christmas.

12 days before Christmas and down 12 days after

Christmas Eve. The kids do the majority of it.

I'm sorry, hope things are better in 2026, house sold and a new start.

You can still have a special time decorating the tree with your children this year.

Got a wee one in family now so itching to get it up. Is today too early? 😂

It's chat. There's a dedicated Christmas board for people to talk about Christmas. But however we are still in October..
Did you post it on here for more response?